Oh my, this is the perfect thread for me! I'm certainly not perfect when it comes to grammar, but some of the things you hear coming out of people's mouths just drive me crazy!!!

A friend of mine mispronounces several words and it makes me cringe! She says simular instead of similar, coont instead of couldn't, and warsh instead of wash. The worst is when she says Massachusetts. She mixes up the syllables and it comes out "Massatoosh*ts."

One that really gets me is Oldtimer's instead of Alzheimer's.

And one more (which I'm guilty of myself) is when people say "a whole nother" - since when can you split a word in two and stick another word in the middle? Oh, excuse me, I mean stick a whole nother word in the middle.

I also hate it when people write "alot" instead of "a lot."

Then there's orientated. Hate it! But if you Google it, you'll find it is actually a word, which makes me grumpy because I don't want it to be a word.